Life Force (ITV 2000, Damian Lewis, Valentine Pelka)

June 22, 2016

SciFi drama series Life Force took us 25 years in the future. With much of Britain under water and the population dwindling, two scientists, Richard and Amy Webber, on the small island of Black Coombe (previously the Cumbrian Mountains), set up a school of physicists helping environmental group Greenwatch.

Two of the children, Ashok and Mai Li, attached to the group have telepathic powers (and glowing eyes). Following the arrest of the Webbers their two children Greg and Karen along with Mai Li and Ashok are forced to fend for themselves. They team up with Green campaigner Goodman.

The show proved to be a bit of a hot potato for CITV with calls for it it to be taken off air because of some its more disturbing imagery (including a young boy sticking a pencil clean through his hand) It ended up having a very disjointed showing because of this. Shame really as it was excellent, intelligent scifi that harked back to 1970’s shows. Watch out too for a pre fame Damian Lewis as the villain of the piece.